1st Day

Hey Y'all!

I have done so much today my poor feet are feeling it. Ashley and I started our day heading to the cascade Monument. She told me about the history and as I was climbing the steps I was doing my best impression of a girl not having a heart attack. People, it's alot of stairs. We continued our journey to the world's saddest amusement park where there were hardly any people around and we were the only ones on the ferris wheel. Let me tell you I was not 100 percent confident in this ferris wheel's ability to hold us but I threw caution to the wind and had a nice little ride. Ashley recalled seeing my mother at the same place in a picture so it's cool I was there 40 plus years later.

We have a good luch of basically bread and cheese. I have a feeling I am going to have a body made of 80 percent of cheese by the end of this trip. After  luch we met with this group who was doing a tour which ended with us at this camp. It was the end of the camp and they were playing soccer and dancing and having a good time. I was shocked thought to see the kids there were years older than what they looked like. There was a boy there talking to us that was 14 years old. I was shocked at the fact that he was over 10! I thought about my cousins and how different they were to these kids and how lucky we all were that we are fed nutrious meals and we grow healthy. Something these kids don't know.

After the tour we ate and drank with these Texans who were in the peace corp. I was embarassed that one of the who had been living in Armenia for 3 years knew so much more about our histoy than I did. Tomorrow we are going shopping at the market so I hope to get lots of cool things that will hopefully fit in my suitecase Until then ...